Company Wins Time in Key Market Amid Regulatory Battles Around the World

PARIS—A French court Friday declined to ban Uber Technologies Inc. from operating its service that uses drivers without professional licenses, wining the company time in a key market amid its regulatory battles world-wide.

But the decision keeps alive legal challenges for Uber in France, by rejecting the proposed ban on jurisdictional grounds alone, and temporarily forbidding Uber from “portraying as legal” the fact that its cars may be driving on the streets looking for fares while it refers elements of a transportation law...